The Cadence Academic Network helps build strong relationships between academia and industry, and promotes the proliferation of leading-edge technologies and methodologies at universities renowned for their engineering and design excellence.

A huge knowledge exchange platform for academia to network with industry. We are looking for academic speakers to talk about their research to the industry attendees at the Academic Track at CDNLive EMEA and Silicon Valley.

Key Benefits

Flexible implementation conforms to the needs of large and small organizations

Since their introduction in the early 1970s, electronic design automation (EDA) tools and flows have been synonymous with distinct and demanding compute needs. From early computer-aided design (CAD) done on massive corporate mainframes to the ICs designed on high-end workstations to system-on-chip (SoC) designs created on multi-core servers, EDA software has always benefited from—and driven the development of—the most powerful infrastructure of the day.

Today, with transistor counts as high as over 19 billion, and electronic design demands routinely surpassing the capacity of company datacenters, the electronics industry must rethink the traditional compute infrastructure model of company-owned, housed, and managed datacenters. Information technology (IT) and CAD teams struggle to meet the peak EDA compute needs of their engineering teams when limited by the finite space of on-premise datacenters, regardless of company size or resources. Under-provisioning the environment leads to resource contention, capacity restrictions, inconsistent turnaround times, and unpredictable performance—which can hinder engineering productivity, project deadlines, and ultimately, time to market. Over-provisioned and expensive infrastructure sits idle, leading to resource waste. As a result, more and more electronics companies are looking to cloud compute to augment their on-premise datacenters to meet their peak design needs.

Challenges with traditional datacenters and electronic design

Cloud computing, or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), is ideally suited to tackle the challenges of modern electronics design, with:

Quick and easy access to compute power

Near unlimited, global capacity

Massive economies of scale

Consistent scale, speed, and performance

The Cadence® Cloud portfolio delivers security and flexibility to customers. Cadence-managed cloud environments intelligently leverage the scalability of cloud computing to enable engineering productivity and accelerate time to market. Cadence Cloud empowers engineers to deliver products faster and more efficiently, despite the intensity and increasing complexity of new designs.

The future of electronics design is cloud computing. The future of EDA is Cadence Cloud.

Cadence Cloud Offerings

Offering

Support Model

Functionality

Cloud Passport Model

Customer-Managed

A model that provides easy access to cloud-ready Cadence software and a cloud-based license server with high reliability for customers establishing and maintaining their own cloud environments.

Cloud Hosted Design Solution

Cadence-Managed

A managed, EDA-optimized cloud environment that supports customers’ peak or entire design environment needs. Can be flexibly deployed as a single tool, flow, or complete environment on Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure.

Cadence Palladium® Cloud Solution

Cadence-Managed

A managed emulation cloud solution that frees customers from installation and operational responsibilities. Can be deployed in combination with other Cadence Cloud offerings.

By initially launching the Cadence Cloud portfolio on AWS, Cadence demonstrated early leadership in the industry. We’re excited to continue working with Cadence to help systems and semiconductor companies realize the benefits of the cloud and greatly accelerate their digital transformation.

Our mutual customers are benefiting from the flexible Cadence Cloud portfolio of cloud-optimized services and tools coupled with Azure’s focus on silicon design workloads, scalability, and economies of scale to manage exploding demand, reduce costs, and decrease time to market.

We’ve chosen to collaborate with Cadence because we see a great opportunity in front of us to move systems and semiconductor companies to the cloud via Google Cloud Platform.

Adam Massey, Director, Strategic Technology Partners, Google Cloud

Arm is seeing strong demand in the industry for cloud services that alleviate peak resource needs. One way Arm is addressing this demand is by working with Cadence to provide our mutual customers with a cloud-based library characterization...

Our Cadence and AWS deployment is allowing us to deliver our platform-on-chip and subsystems for networking, storage and security applications faster so that we maintain not only our own competitive advantage but also that of AWS.

We started using Cadence HDS on-premise with great success a few years ago because we needed full infrastructure and CAD and IT staff support. Now as our company has grown, we have decided to make the move to the Cadence Cloud-Hosted Design Solution deployed on Microsoft Azure in order to improve scalability.

Ronnie Huang, CTO and co-founder, CNEX Labs, Inc

Through use of the Cadence Cloud-Hosted Design Solution deployed on AWS, we have successfully modernized our IT infrastructure for silicon design. The cloud-based approach enhanced collaboration of our world-class team, and Cadence’s support has allowed a seamless move to this new service delivery model.